The last panel made me feel with Li and La, Ten and a tree-spirit, both sobbing, sounds like something they didn’t sign up for. Nothing compared to Ten thou, I thought he would hit bottom two pages ago, and here he is still falling.
BTW what’s with the points in Li and La’s Text? Do the have a special meaning?

This particular tree was ancient even before transplantation? Do you have any idea how big a rootball can get??? I had assumed they were all cultivated from seedlings in space labratories. That is far more cost effective then moving a fifty+ ton tree and rootball. But to have such old memories, it must be very old, and therfore have a hell of a lot of roots. I remember a big project a few years ago to save an old growth tree from highway expansion. It stood apart from the main forest, which was dominated by younger trees. The older small road had gone between, but there was no room for the expansion on both sides. In an unusual act of cooperation, the state road workers decided to help a group of volunteers dig up and move the rootball 90% intact about fifty yards. The tree trunk alone weighed about 15 tones, but the roots clocked total mass above fifty. And trees adapted to desert life have to send their roots far wider in search of water. I just don’t see anybody investing in moving one intact like this ONTO A SPACE STATION.
That also begs the question: the tree spirit was oblivious to the process that brought it to the station, yet is annoyed by Ten scratching it?
I also wonder if this highly maintained environment is somehow stunting the spiritual and mental development of the other trees. Is that what she means by them being “quiet”?

She would have had to be less then 5 years, 10 Kilm years old to be cost effective. Are tree spirits normally self aware by then, because she remembers the moons, and was likely taught something or other from her own elder trees. And you still haven’t explained why she was unaware of being moved. That would kind of stand out to a being that normally never moves.

I have answers for all the questions about this, which the twins will get to soon enough so I’m not going to ruin their explanations, but I’m curious why you guys are so sure the tree must have arrived as an adult and not a young sapling.

All right, the mythology and the tumblr indicate the great age of the Moons, and the tree spirit seemed personaly familier with them, but perhaps, as I think it over, she is just very aware of their reputations. I infered from her seeming familiarity that she had gotten to know them at some early period back on the planet, and therefore must have been an old growth tree at the time of transplantation, but moving such a colossal rootball off planet intact is preposterous. Now if the tree had led with a statment like, “Moons? Is that you? My old elders told me of your mighty deeds! But why have you vanished from the skys?”, that would have eliminated any ambiguity right off the bat without likely overshooting the plot reveals you have planned next.
Now, I am guessing that you wil want to wait until the tree’s side of things is explained in due course, but I woul an explanation as to why this particular tree needed to be grown for a year or two planetside, and not started from scratch in a cultivation labratory already in space. It just seems easier all around.

Err…it was LIKE one…your questions and answers forum? I sort of stumbled across it a while back and forgot the setting. Fans were asking characters questions and then you had them answer tumblre style.

Make internet friends!

I really enjoyed this comic and the extra bits on the Tumblr. Unfortunately even though someone was kind enough to archive your posts from said tumblr, the content within the breaks was not archived such as the story of Kiva relaying her past to Raj or what was up with Tattith (which was actually what I was waiting for but it was taken down before got a chance to see it.) is there anywhere to access that content?

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avsaroke

(Wednesday, Feb 13. 2019 11:07 AM)

Bleh – Oh boy um… I don’t have direct access to that anymore, but I’m pretty sure some people reblogged those posts before they were deleted. Maybe if one of them sees this they could be so kind as to link you to it? Otherwise, I’ll try to search after work and see if I can find anything.